One thing about Blender is that it actually used to be commercial software and instead of letting it die out, a campaign was run to make it a free and open source application. I believe this was in the early 2000's. Wish the same could have happened to XSI instead of AD burying it. Regarding Modo, its definitely making…
The Foundry isn't as unpleasant and vile as Autodesk in terms of business decisions and the way they treat their customers... but the truth is that they're not really that far off. I'd probably rate them as third worst after Autodesk and Adobe in the pasture of developers today. It's a bit unfortunate for Modo since after…